For Penn Faculty

To support the creation and implementation of Academically Based Community Service (ABCS) courses, the Netter Center offers the following resources:

• ABCS Course Development Step-by-Step Guide
• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
• $10,000 Course Development Grants
• Provost-Netter Center Faculty-Community Partnership Awards
• Access to institutional community partnerships through the Netter Center
• Ongoing support from Netter Center staff to prepare students for community engagement and collaboration
• Transportation (Van Service or SEPTA Tokens)
• Clearances and Background Checks for students working with minors
• Recognition, awards, and leadership opportunities for exemplary students involved in ABCS
• Surveys evaluating the impact of the course on students' personal, professional, and civic development
• Marketing and promotion of the course
• Opportunities for students to continue engagement beyond the course in work-study or volunteer capacities
• Thematic Faculty-led Seminars   
  • Academically Based Community Service (ABCS) Teaching
  • Arts, Culture, and Humanities
  • Public Schools
  • College Access, Career Readiness, and Democracy
  • Improving Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Undergraduate Education through K-20+ Partnerships
  • Environment and Health

• Additional resources available on the following topics upon request:
  • ABCS & Service Learning
  • Reflection
  • History of West Philadelphia/Penn
  • K12 Lesson Planning/Student Engagement/Classroom Management
  • Problem-Solving Learning and Participatory Action Research
  • Questions of Race, Class and Privilege
  • School District of Philadelphia
  • Anchor Institutions
  • Democracy, Community Schools and University-Community Partnerships
  • Netter Center & Related Faculty Publications

For more information, please contact:

• Anna Balfanz (General ABCS Coordinator) abcscoordinator@sas.upenn.edu
• Jarrett Stein (Food and Nutrition Partnership Courses) steinjm@sas.upenn.edu
• Richard Carter (STEM Partnership Courses) carterri@sas.upenn.edu